Mary-Elizabeth Lindsay Was Active in Civic Work

Mary-Elizabeth Hart Lindsay died Tuesday, June 19, at Great
Barrington Health Care Center, Great Barrington, following a brief
illness.

She was born in Westwood, N.J., Oct. 27, 1906, the daughter of
Wilkinson and Katherine Van Leuven Hart. She was preceded in death by
her husband of 56 years, Stuart Lindsay; her sisters, Amy H.
Willenbucher, Harriet H. Sutton, Eileen H. Shafer, Dorothy Bispham and
Alice G.B. Thurnall, and her granddaughter, Lynne G. Shakshober.

Prior to moving to this area, she had lived for many years in
Westwood and Woodcliff Lake, N.J., making her permanent home in
Edgartown in 1970.

She was educated in schools in Martinique, French West Indies, where
her father, an importer, was also with the American Consulate during
World War I, and in Barbados, British West Indies, her father's boyhood
home at Ashford, St. John's Parish. After graduating from Westwood High
School, she attended business school in New York and was employed at
Chase National Bank there before becoming a homemaker.

She was president of the Woman's Club of Westwood and was active in
church work there and in Edgartown. She also volunteered for the
American Cancer Society and at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital. She was a
member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Edgartown.

Surviving are two daughters, Patricia and her husband, John
Shakshober of Boston Corner, N.Y., and Sandra and her husband, C. Warren
Ormerod of Malvern, Pa.; eight grandchildren, Caryl Shakshober of
Delmar, N.Y., Susan Shakshober and her husband, David Reeder, of
Arlington, Tex., Stuart and his wife, Marta Shakshober, of Churchtown,
N.Y., Patricia and her husband, John Mac Arthur, of Boston Corner, N.Y.,
D. John Shakshober and his wife, Colleen, of Townsend, Alayne J. Ormerod
of Champaign, Ill., Catherine Ormerod and her husband, Ross Cherry of
Gynedd Valley, Pa., and Lisa Ormerod of Philadelphia, Pa.; 10
great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

A private family funeral will be held Saturday, June 29, at the
Church of St. John in the Wilderness, Copake Falls, N.Y. Memorials may
be made to the American Cancer Society.